Answer #1:
Alan Shepherd was the first American to go into space in 1961. The President
of the United States at that time was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Answer #2:
Alan Shepard flew his sub-orbital mission on May 5, 1961.
John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in January, 1961.
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The first American object launched into space was the Explorer 1 satellite on January 31, 1958. It was the first satellite to be successfully put into orbit by the United States.
It was so amazing for her to be the first American woman to be and space but the only reason the went was because they wanted to put a satellite from Canada to Indonesia.
The Mercury capsule went to space in 1961. Although the Soviets had put a person in space first, Alan Shepard was the first American to fly the Mercury capsule in space.
The first American space missions were called Mercury missions. These missions aimed to put astronauts into space, gather data on human spaceflight, and pave the way for more ambitious missions. The Mercury program ran from 1960 to 1963.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man (and first Russian) to be put in space.
The phrase "In God We Trust" was first added to U.S. coinage in 1864, during the American Civil War.
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The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.